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over the western united states. it may have come all the way from china. national security correspondent jennifer griffin has details from the pentagon. hi, jennifer. good evening, gill i can t believe. the pentagon says it has detected and been tracking for the past several days a chinese surveillance balloon that entered u.s. airspace and appears to have been sent bye bye jing to spy on sensitive sites in montana. one of three sites where the u.s. houses it s siloed nuclear weapons. nbc first reported the news. a senior u.s. defense official just briefed reporters on the balloon which is still hovering over the continental united states. adding the u.s. government has very high confidence that this surveillance balloon was sent by the peoples republic of china. the balloon is currently traveling at an altitude well above commercial air traffic and does not present a military or physical threat to people on the ground. instances of this kind of balloon activity hav ....
Once the balloon was detected, the u.s. government acted immediately to protect against the collection of sensitive information. gillian: the u.s. military scrambled f-22 fighter jets yesterday and closed the billings montana airport ordering a ground stoppage yesterday while the president was briefed by the national security team in the event that president biden opted to order the military to shoot down the chinese spy balloon. among those who briefed the president were generals glen van hurricane, the head of northern cam manned norad. he and the other chiefs recommended not shooting counsel the balloon because of the danger posed on the ground from falling debris and the assessment that the surveillance balloon does not provide the chinese government from more intelligence than it can glean from existing low orbit satellites. president biden was asked about the balloon at the white house today but ignored the question. a senior defense official gillian said this is not the first ....
The new york post published some of the content less than a month before the election. detailing hunter s involvement in the ukrainian natural gas company and chinese energy firm and apparent attempts to leverage and involve his father. then, more than 50 former intelligence officers, including former cia directors john brennan, michael morell, leon panetta and mike hayden says the laptop release has all the classic earmarks of a russian information campaign. twitter and facebook throttled stories shared about it and democrats cast doubts. five former head of the cia both parties saying what he is say something a bunch of garbage. house republicans say they plan to investigate hunter biden s business conduct and the tech companies that blocked users from sharing reports on his laptop. the investigation is here. the uniqueness is you will have republicans and democrats and we will get to the above all of that. the justice department is also investigating hunter s business cond ....